Lately my laptop (just over a year old) has been making a whistling sound and shutting down. After this happens, I’ve noticed that it’s pretty warm on the left hand side. It’s not in a warm place and the temperature in my office stays pretty cool. Maybe I just need to figure out how to defluff it but I’m worried that the problem could be more complicated than that.
This may or may not be significant but my son replaced my hard drive about three weeks ago and also switched my operating system from Vista to XP. (I think I’ve used up my annual quota of tech fixes that adult sons are willing to do for their technologically-challenged mothers.)
The shutting down only happens when the computer is plugged in—not when I’m just using the battery. This is probably a dumb question but…… does a laptop run hotter when plugged in? And this is a rhetorical question …….why does my five-year-old cheap laptop run pretty well while my more expensive newer one has been an ongoing pain in the butt
Thanks in advance for any insight or advice anyone may be able to offer.
LA